Documenting the Alaska Suite

Fall 2018 was busy!

In addition to many successful performances, we recorded the Alaska Suite music at David Lange Studios in September. The CD recording will be available soon.

Inspired by a live performance, producer and videographer Bill Lange decided he wanted to create a 30-minute documentary about the Alaska Suite. A large camera crew videotaped an Alaska Suite performance in the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle on Nov. 7, 2018. This footage and more from the recording studio and personal interviews will be edited in the coming months.

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Audience Feedback

“I am … awed and inspired by the commitment of your group to getting this out there to touch and inspire others to action. You have such a great voice — and narrative — for communicating facts and feelings — then amplified by the music — that immediately lets your audience sink into the moment and be present to the enormity of what they are witnessing and hearing.”— Marcia Lagerloef

“Congratulations on a powerful, unique, multi-sensory, beautiful and pioneering experience… this really is refreshing and arresting…”– George Lawson

“The combination of the music, your spoken words, and the images was magnificent. What a beautiful way to communicate many facets of climate change, and to draw people in.”
– Elizabeth Burton

“I was not prepared to cry, but yet I was so moved. Not by just what you said, but the entire performance. Wow!”– Catherine

“I was not prepared for how the combination of an excellent jazz composition and a factual and emotional narrative about Alaskan climate change would both inform and move me.”— George Divoky, Friends of Cooper Island

“Alaska Suite” was absolutely brilliant!
— Tim Hunt

“When I attended your performance … I wrote that one of my climate actions would be to buy a used Nissan Leaf… It was quite motivating to have written that down! Now reporting back that I bought it this weekend — and am feeling very happy to be driving it.”– Lisa Maynard

“Thank you all for coming out … to hear Nelda’s stirring composition—part love song, part sad ballad to Alaska, and part battle cry to reclaim the health of our planet. I guess we were moved by the music and the statistics and the images because we raised about $1500 for the Yes On 1631 campaign!”
— Mary Casey, house concert host